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The sales tax rate for Cook and Lake County is 10 percent and 8 percent. Also, the tax rate on food and beverages sold at restaurants in the Cook County portion of Buffalo Grove is 11 percent (10 percent for sales tax and 1 percent for food and beverage tax), while in Lake County, the same tax on food sold at restaurants is 9 percent. [127]
Including its lake area, Cook County has a total area of 1,635 square miles (4,234.6 km 2), the largest county in Illinois, of which 945 square miles (2,447.5 km 2) is land and 690 square miles (1,787.1 km 2) (42.16%) is water. Land-use in Cook County is mostly urban and densely populated.
The RTA sales tax was increased to 1.25% in Cook County, and 0.75% in the collar counties (from 1% and 0.25%, respectively), but one-third of the sales tax collected in the collar counties (i.e. 0.25%) is distributed directly to the counties [39] and the county boards may use that money for transportation or public safety purposes. [40]
Cook County’s budget has increased from $5.2 billion in fiscal year 2018 to $9.94 billion for 2025. ... like sales taxes, and expenditure reductions, like lower than anticipated health care and ...
Metra would reach beyond its traditional six-county stomping grounds in 2027 to run trains from Rockford to Chicago under an agreement with Illinois, ... a 1.25% sales tax. In DuPage, Kane, Lake ...
In some jurisdictions of the United States, there are multiple levels of government which each impose a sales tax. For example, sales tax in Chicago (Cook County), IL is 10.25%, consisting of 6.25% state, 1.25% city, 1.75% county and 1% regional transportation authority. Chicago also has the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority tax on ...
On November 8, 2016, Illinois voters approved the Illinois Transportation Taxes and Fees Lockbox Amendment, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that prohibits lawmakers from using transportation funds for anything other than their stated purpose.
Lake County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Illinois, along the shores of Lake Michigan.As of the 2020 census, it has a population of 714,342, [1] making it the third-most populous county in Illinois.